Data is at the heart of every online publishing application. Ensuring that data is accurately and comprehensively marked up is the key to providing a good online experience for those searching and viewing your content.
The following is a small collection of tips for making sure your XML data is in tip-top condition.
Category Archives: Project Management
Seven tips for better XML data quality
Focusing your online publishing business case
Generating a solid business case and maintaining it throughout a project’s life-cycle is no mean feat. Daily challenges – such as getting the most from a limited budget, operating within tight deadlines and dealing with the competing demands and priorities of multiple stakeholders – can result in goal posts moving, scope creeping and deadlines slipping. [...]
Seven attributes of effective project management
Delivering web publishing projects requires the careful coordination of a range of skill sets. There are the developers, who focus on technical challenges; the designers, information architects and QA testers, who primarily focus on addressing end-users’ needs; and of course there is the client team, whose prime focus is on business benefits. Meanwhile, the Project [...]
Software Estimation and the Cone of Uncertainty
Accurate estimation for software projects is the cornerstone of good project management. Learn how task duration and confidence levels are fundamentally connected in managing project risks.

Richard Padley
Managing Director,
Semantico